The Old Plantation
It stands proudly on the top of the first rise out of town among the fertile foothills of the mountains beyond. From it's deep front porch you can see the short strip of the high street leading down to the port below and the harbour sparkling before the fog on the horizon.
Derelict now and the fields overgrown with native plants the place is a ghost estate on first glance. Once the working homestead of it's proud founder, Sir Woodwell Skavingdon, it boasted 83 slaves and a thriving sugar works, it's success saw many more stone based buildings go up in Port Jasper including the famed The Sugar Mill Club and the quaint customs house down by the docks.
An old citrus grove beside the main house is still baring fruit and there is talk in town that Tyrian Di Mare is planning to refresh and restock the trees, however no one has ever nor wants to bother with the house. Amongst the locals there is an unspoken understanding that no master will ever reside on the hill again and the building will stand uninterrupted as a reminder of what was. Tales are told and retold in The Salty Seadog about its cursed past and haunted present... about an apparition who can be heard singing a sweet sorrowful song on the waxing of every new moon.
Sugarcane now grows wild around this region and the descendance of those who never left still work the tall grasses, utilising the surviving outbuildings. A darker Demerara sugar is currently being produced as a front for the main objective - rum.
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